Whenever they just shut up in the PR department and just focus on talking on their own products Is when I truly love Sony. Sony released today the new "bendable" and transparent organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology. These are the new prototypes featuring an OLED at a mere 0.2 mm thick. The prototype devices are a Vaio notebook, a flexible e-book, and a Walkman bracelet, sorry no PSP2 yet but hey, this is a step into the right direction!

Pure


Sleek


Sexyness...


Possible?


I remember Sony releasing almost 3 years ago in 2007, the prototype of this Paper touch screen LED technology. What they showed back then was a simple video playing on this thin paper plastic while being bent back and forth. Now finally after 3 years of development it is finally shown for commercial use. When I saw this I knew this was the next step in computers and future technology and was really excited because soon we will be doing Minority Report computing.

Ok enough of the small talk, time to see it in action...


Drooling yet? While this post is not based on actual video games, you can't help but wonder what type of can come with this type of technology. 100" HDOLED that you staple to your wall? Those PSP2 concept that kept everyone wishing Sony would do?







I hope Sony releases this into the market, I hope they don't make it expensive... I hope they do find some sort of way to use this technology to cut prices down and do more. This technology makes the Macbook Air and new Kindle look like a fat elephant.


source: [url="http://www.physorg.com/news174112703.html"]My link[/url]

Just to point this out, this is not a flame bait fanboy war, it is a issue that happened recently and I think it should get coverage depending if you think it is fair or not.

So here is a story that came up today about how one man had his console break multiple times within 30 days with no solution, not even from Microsoft. In the end he ended up paying $100 for the repairs because he ranged out of warranty and still had to deal with his console not being operational for a long period of time. Here is his story.

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I'm sure you get stories like this all the time, and I'm sure the news is old (Xbox 360s break, they suck, haha), but this isn't so much a story about an Xbox being broken as it is a story about Xbox support failing to repair and identify the problem after a few months and three repairs. I can't get anyone at Microsoft to even apologize for them messing up over and over time and time again, so I thought I'd take to the internet to see if anyone wants to write about a true Xbox Support horror story.

I'm 25 years old, work in a professional office building as a newspaper designer, am married, have a son and am not very dumb.

Xbox got four red lights back in July. My Xbox is still under warranty, but warranty doesn't cover four red lights. I happily send them $100. [Ed note: 4 red lights is code for a missing AV cable, but can be caused by other issues. 3 red lights is the famous RRoD and is covered by the warranty.]

Four weeks after putting in the repair order, the Xbox was sent back fixed. It is now August. It took four weeks for the repair to complete in part because of shipping problems, including five boxes being delivered to my door and two instances of undeliverable addresses. Really, the repair only took a week. Getting the correct box to my house took three weeks.

Three weeks after I got it back, on August 27, I got three red lights about ten minutes away from beating Shadow Complex with 100% items found.

About 2 weeks after repair was ordered, Xbox was returned to me – three red lights remained.
About 2 weeks after repair was ordered, Xbox was returned to me – three red lights remained.
About 2 weeks after repair was ordered, Xbox was returned to me – three red lights remained.
(that's not a typo. I sent it in three times, and it was sent back still broken three times)

It is now October. I took to Twitter to rage about Microsoft and a friend asked me if I checked the lights on the power supply. No person at any point in this repair process going all the way back to July has ever asked me or told me or hinted about or mentioned the light on the power supply indicating the power supply might be faulty. I checked it, and the power supply was orange. I'd bet the very first time I got the three red lights, this might've been the problem. Why no one in the process, after the Xbox came back to me "unrepaired," asked me to check the power supply I do not know.

After much convincing, a new power supply was ordered sent to me by Microsoft. It arrived after a week. The male power supply didn't fit into my female Xbox port. Apparently, Xbox has used a few different kinds of power supplies over the years.

Today, October 7, the new power supply has been ordered and might arrive in 2-3 weeks (they have to process the request, 7 days they say, and then ship it, 5 days. Add weekends off and time to deliver, and it'll be 2-3 weeks).

So after all that, I've been able to play my 360 for about three weeks total since July... Am I at fault? Maybe 1% of this is my fault – I could've looked online for more reasons the three red lights might happen, at which point I would've found out about the power supply problem… but still, that's no excuse, because it isn't my friends job to fix my console, it is Microsoft's job, and they have failed.

Andy Phifer
Houston, Texas
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So do you think he is still subjected to pay the $100 when he had to find the fix himself and still deal with the whole back and forth with Microsoft or you think it was all fair? Gizmodo doesn't think so but what do you think.

source: http://gizmodo.com/5376275/xbox-360-repaired-3-times-returns-each-time-with-red-ring

Lalafel flirting with a Human!!! Talking about Midget pron! Allot has been released in this new trailer. Allot more ingame content and actual fight scenes and weird flying things!!! + a beer pub hangout place. A Galka molesting a female Lalafel and allot more! There is allot of character expressions on this new trailer and if you listen to the battle music, it sounds very very old school!

+ Old Enemies like Malboro showing in pure HD Glory and a weird flying machine that I am not sure if its a summon avatar or a actual ship. All I can say it looks FRIGGIN SWEET!!!!! The video is in japanese so I have no clue what it means, ill leave this to the Dtoid team to translate :D

Sorry no youtube vid out yet, must go to their jp site to see it for now :( - Edit. My fanbase got them :D
http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/

ENGRISH


JP

Ok guys, to put all fanboys war aside and share a warm... tender... moment with my Dtoid fam...

This has to be the funniest thing I have seen all year... I have all my co-workers cracking up and I just have to share it with you guys lol. Also, it is kinda, sorta, but not really safe for work depending were you work so put on your earplugs just to be safe.



Also Jim, was thinking about you all this time I was watching this video... o_O;

Is it coming in 2011? Rumors are starting to spread and not just from any crappy source, its coming from president of Square Enix. Wada says that the next-generation, high definition Wii will offer the same capabilities as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, while adding a brand new motion controller. Is SquareEnix thinking of going back to their roots, how does he know this type of information, is President Wada messing around with Shigeru Miyamoto going to karaoke bars in japan and loosing their tongues? who knows... but this brings up speculation.



Will the Wii2 be the next one to launch the next-gen HD gaming just how xbox took the lead this turn? Or will it just sub-par with the current gen of console war? All I know is that with the huge piles and piles of money that Nintendo has under their desks, they can probably buy the Cell chip used on the PS3 and afford to bribe more companies into exclusivity than Microsoft and have left over money to create a much better Nintendo Online experience that can match XBL but even better, make it free. Not to mention that Nintendo can backslap Microsoft and Sony really bad on motion capture crap... Natal and Sony's wand can be considered dead if the Wii2 comes out with sensors you put in your brain to control games.

I can see it now... Nintendo comes back with a vengance on FPS mixed with Teletubies Death Match!


source:
http://gizmodo.com/5057249/true-next-gen-wii-coming-in-2011
http://gizmodo.com/5364077/next-generation-wii-coming-with-hd-graphics-and-new-controller-in-2011

This is something that it has bothered me for some time and now, the worst time to start typing it up. It's 2 am in the friggin morning and I have to wake up early tomorrow for 15 hours of work. Nevertheless I think its something I have to post.

I think this fanboy thing is getting out of hand, not saying its bad because it is good hits for the site and all, but because it doesn't matter who you call out, If someone spent money on a system and you call them out they will come back pissed or answer back with an reply, then 1 out of 3, the original insulter will counter attack by calling the person who was attacked a "Fanboy." Then everyone in the blog site who loves jumping into the Hate train will start jumping in, oh and they will LOVE their ride. They will use any possible insults to make fun of the person who was called out, find bullet point ridicules and distorted facts to pretty much try to look as good as possible and to share the Hate train to whoever else wants to tag along.



Well this is not fun, this is not even informative or an article anymore. I noticed it, I saw it coming, I knew Jim was making fun of all 3 systems, PS3, 360, Wii, just to prove that he is unbiased. Very predictable, but he is unbiased and I know he only does it for the hits. He has proven it but this is the part that irritates me the most, Jim I love you and all, I know you are making all the good lulz on Dtoid, but you need to know when you have to take a step back and relax. Because you know how to FLAME ON on peoples roof's and make them scream that "The Roof, The Roof! Roof is on Fire!" then Piss on them when they do scream it. A person who sits back and watches everything thats going on can see these things. So even if the Sony fanboys are the worst, why, why, why, why, WHY would you call them out? obvious answer, 400 comments, but now, what are you going to do next? You shitted on them, you gave your logical and valid topics, but you did insult them. why? I like you, but I don't know, I remember a certain someone who got flamed to death by putting too much gas into the fire.



There is nothing more sad than to pick out one of the 3 fanboy sectors and call them the worst. Even if it is true. You know why? Because the other 2 will just jump in this Hate Train you just created. Look at the monstrosity of blog you created. 400 friggin hits, BUT OF WHAT!? of people hating on each other? People calling each other out? What of good usefulness is this in gaming. I just noticed that even dough I had a kick out of it, it was fun to read an all, but I re-read it just out of curiosity, and I noticed that you were serious. You did mean every single word of it and basicly took 3 sinners sons and picked the black one out of the bunch and said "You are the worst Son I ever had!" Then you had the Green and white sons say "Yea, you suck! you are no brother of mine!" and the reason I say this is because even so we all have our differences, our favoritisms, we come to Destructoid because its fun and it stands out over the rest of the blog sites, its like it has a good karma we all enjoy and want to keep. But what happens when you call out 1/3 of it out and say all those things you said, you turn each one vs another.



All I ask is that you stop the flame wars because it will just ignite that flame and you don't want that to happen. You will get burned. By making all of these negative posts, because they are negative in all possible ways, there is nothing constructive of them, you will bring out more, and more fanboys. You will start pissing on every single one of them, but soon you will find your self overwhelmed. You will see more and more fanboys start popping on the site, but this time, instead of your dummy fanboys, they will be the Big Boss type of fanboys, those who are not so stupid like Devil666, TheQuest, or the later ones we have today, no you will have the ones with the tough arguments who will know how to get you, and rally all the fanboys of each sector until you get burned. It happened here on Destructoid once before and I don't want it to happen to you. Fanboys will jump unto the hate train that you yourself created and rail it back on to you. So please lets just stop these negative threads, make positive ones for a change and see how you can bring good articles and good people by making good journalism.



Let us all just get along and drop the hate threads



Now to help release some of the stress of anyone who took your blog out of context, here are some happy pictures to help you relax... breathe in... relax... breathe .... in.... relax.... breath... in.... relax...